Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
Well, what the heck are you going to do now when you need to attract cheap inexperienced pilots to make a start up airline to undercut your old airline that was costing too much?
Well, you now hire people at 1500 hours and pay them $16 bucks an hour because the drool for a regional job will never go away, 500 extra hours won't make the pilot demand more money, nor does it increase the value of the pilot from a management perspective.
Alternatively, regionals could come up with some special part 91 operation (for a profit, of course) and hire 500 hour pilots for $11 an hour because, after all, there would be no other options for said pilot...